Indian textiles

Woven In Time

Geeta Doctor

Celebrating the diversity of Indian textiles along the Spice Route

String Theory

Geeta Doctor

The warp and weft of the Indian subcontinent

The Tiruppur Model: For A Security Blanket

V Shoba

The evaporation of formal jobs has reshaped the concept of a workday in manufacturing towns like Tiruppur, where young people are only a small crisis away from poverty

Smriti Irani Weaves a New Legacy

Sonali Acharjee

It’s a different kind of culture war for Smriti Irani in her latest role as textile minister and she is all set to weave a new legacy for herself

Warp and Weft

Sunaina Kumar

Rosemary Crill and Divia Patel, co-curators of an upcoming exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, talk about the illustrious legacy of Indian textiles